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A compelling account on how Jimmy Savile fixed it for the British nation to be hoodwinked. This indepth book opens with the chapter entitled  Apocalypse Now Then . The distinction between the defacing of a tombstone on a Scarborough hillside and the glitzy life of Jimmy Savile could not be more extreme. I grew up with Savile on TV. He always grated on me for no definable reason. I felt obliged to ‘like’ him because he was the oldest teenager on  Top of the Pops , did lots for charity and was one of England’s great eccentrics. Even as a young child, I just couldn’t like him. But what a shocking story Davies tells. Savile's Interviews with Dan Davies Buy from Amazon Few can be more qualified to write about Savile’s life than Davies, who first met Savile during a  Clunk Click  episode, where he got spooked into a lifelong obsession on the man behind the cigar smoke. Davies met Savile numerous time throughout his journalistic life, stopping in the ‘Duches...

According to the government’s obesity and healthy eating policy, most people in Britain are overweight or obese. This means that the risk of developing heart disease, cancer and diabetes are rife. But I find it no surprise when I see the dire state of our supermarkets. The food they stock is a disgrace. Why the Government Action to Tackle Obesity in Britain will Not Work I took this pic in the Coop Superstore Their strategy might sound good on paper, but will not work in practice, and I’ll tell you why in a moment. For now, government’s strategy informs on: Having a healthy diet and getting exercise. This includes getting people to eat their 5 a day, reducing fat and salt, reducing portion sizes as well as alcohol intake. Better labeling on food and drink to help consumers make healthier choices Include healthy menus in restaurants. Local councils to provide health services for obese people. Their ‘call to action’ makes the statement that it is everybody’...

I was sold by the blurb and the opening of this thriller. A priest is murdered via overdose during shenanigans and then is thrown out of the window, mantel and all to plummet deathwards .Well, what isn’t there to hook the reader? We don’t know who the killer is, there are some colourful characters and the writing was fine. But I didn’t anticipate the next reading. In fact, I got distracted by another book halfway through and that is never a good sign. Thriller with Colorful Characters When I returned to the Violet Hour, I found I didn’t care much about what happened. There was a fair amount of aimless bantering between characters, it seemed, to illustrate the nature of cousins Nicky and Joe’s relationship, as well as the mete of the other hustlers in the neighbourhood. Nicky is a regular good guy with a lot of weird associations, only I didn’t care. Thriller about Halloween Past Halloween 1988 has significance to the killer and he is out for revenge for a traumatic even...

This book seemed to be written with Matt Damon in mind, although I haven’t seen the film. Most of the story is told through abandoned astronaut, Watney’s log, which is tinged with tongue-in-cheek comments such as, ‘I’m off to play with drugs and radiation’ and ‘yay, I’m pretty much f..cked.’ Buy from Amazon Science Fiction with Realism But this irony is what really defines this book as well as an entertaining lesson on physics and chemistry. Stuck with seventies TV and disco as entertainment provides contrast against the harsh realities of Mars. So, Watney is stranded on Mars after his team, believing him dead, cut their mission short. Knowing what we now know about Mars, the book asks ‘what if...?’ There are no little green men, only dust storms, low gravity, extreme cold and the sterile environment. In Bond fashion, Watney has to find creative solutions to seemingly unsolvable problems. And the answers lie in a combination of potatoes, duct tape and sending Morse ...